Clarion 1960-05-19 Vol 36 No 14

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Lois Bradshaw, a college junior
from St. Paul, has been named
CLARION editor for the school
year 1960-61.
Miss Bradshaw has previously
worked on the paper as news editor,
copy editor, and reporter. She
has also had experience working
on her high school paper.
At present, Miss Bradshaw, an
English major, is recording secre-tary
of the student senate.
She succeeds this year's co-edi-tors,
Alice Huffman and Conrad
Woodall.
Miss Bradshaw has appointed
Office Plans
Award Convo
For May 20
Awards will be presented to stu-dents
who have contributed signifi-cantly
to campus life in areas of
co-curricular activities in a special
chapel on Friday, May 20. Presi-dent
Carl Lundquist will bestow
the awards.
Awards will be given in the fol-lowing
areas: athletics, debate, mu-sical
groups, Christian service, ra-dio,
Clarion, Spire, and student
senate.
Students were selected to receive
the awards on the basis of their
service to the campus and their
participation in the specific acti-vity.
The purpose of the awards
chapel is to honor those who have
participated and encourage others
to participate in a co-curricular
activities.
Within each activity there are
variations in awards, including sil-ver
pins, gold pins, paper weights,
letter holders, and book ends for
all non-athletic activities. Athletic
awards include numerals, letters,
sweaters, and blankets.
According to Eugene Sprinkle,
assistant dean of students, those
who will receive awards will be
notified through the post office.
Richard Krieder, freshman, sports
editor, as business manager. Shar-on
Dickau, a freshman reporter,
has been named assistant editor.
Other staff members include
Marie Hokuf, news editor, Sharon
Bergstrom, feature editor, Lois
Brown, copy editor, and Don
Delich, sports editor. Karen Mollet
will be circulation manager.
Positions that are still open on
the staff are layout editor, and as-sistants
in all other departments.
Anyone who is interested should
contact the editor through Box 350.
Tea Honors Grads
The Bethel Women's Associa-tion
will sponsor a commence-ment
tea on Sunday, May 22.
The tea honoring the women
members of the graduating
class will be held in the Bodien
residence lounge from 2:30 to
4:30 in the afternoon.
"There will be no formal pro-gram
but there will be a musi-cal
background," said Elaine
Johnson, BWA president.
According to Miss Johnson,
all women students, faculty and
wives of students and faculty
are invited to attend the tea.
C. Lundquist,
G. Johnson
Get Th.D.'s
Carl Lundquist, president, and
Gordon Johnson, associate profes-sor
of homiletics in the seminary,
will be conferred their Th.D. de-grees
on May 23. They recently
completed work at Northern Bap-tist
Theological seminary in Chi-cago.
Dr. Lundquist did his disserta-tion
on a study of the teaching of
preaching in Baptist theological
seminaries. In his study he visited
and studied in 33 Baptist semin-aries
in the United States.
Mr. Johnson completed his work
in the field of practical theology.
The staff works ( ?) hard. Karen Mollet, circulation manager,
listens attentively as Dick Kreider, business manager and Lois Brad-shaw,
editor, discuss membership rates for ACP. Sharon Dickau, assist-ant
editor, contacts Marie Hokuf and Don Delich who are absent from
picture.
Council Heads, Prexies
Fill Senate Membership
All student senate positions for next year are filled as a result
of the May 6 class election, the recent senate appointments of coun-cil
chairmen and the seminary election.
Council chairmen for the school year 1960-61 were voted on
and appointed at the May 3 student senate meeting.
Conrad Lundberg, a junior sociology major, was appointed chair-man
of the religious council.
Heading the social council will be David Stapp, a sophomore from
South St. Paul.
Milton Quiggle was re-appointed to chairman the cultural council.
Mr. Quiggle is a middler in the seminary.
Truman Turnquist, present junior class president, will head-up the
athletic council.
The council chairmen are looking for people to serve with them.
Students interested in working on a council should contact the respec-tive
chairmans.
The following were selected as class chairmen: Phil Peterson, sen-ior
class chairman elect, Larry Peterson, junior class chairman elect,
and James Spickelmier, sophomore class chairman elect.
Other class officyrs are as fnllov-s:
The freshmen elected Darrel Johnson, vice-president, Nancy Gustaf-son,
secretary, and Lee Bajuniemi, treasurer.
Th sophomore class elected Tuffy Bryant, vice-president, Ellen Polk,
sceretary, and Mable Moen, treasurer.
The junior class officers are Ray Duncan, vice-president, June Mc-
Gillivray, secretary, and Ann Friberg, treasurer.
Class presidents serve as voting members of the student senate.
Walter Shearer, seminary middleman, was recently elected semin-ary
council president. As president he has a vote in student senate as
the seminary representative.
Other officers are George Dvirnak, vice-president, and Robert
Kobele, secretary-treasurer.
College Office Notes
Registration Increase
Registration has increased 47
per cent over last year, the col-lege
office announced.
Two hundred-forty applications
had been received by May 1 this
year as compared with 164 by the
same time last year. Of these 131
freshmen and 10 transfer students After that time it may be neces-have
been accepted. sary to limit enrollment as Bethel
A trend for high school students is only able to admit about 230
to apply earlier in the year ac- freshmen, she added.
'Bethel Closes
Year in Black'
Says Ferguson
Recently, it was announced by
Charles Ferguson, director of em-ployment,
that the deficit had been
met and the college and seminary
ended the fiscal year in the black.
At the beginning of April there
appeared to be a $55,000 deficit—
and by mid-April it was lowered
to $35,000.
Through 2,642 contributions
ranging from $1. to $5,000., the
college received $96,153 in April.
A $10,000 gift was given by the
C.I.T. Foundation, Inc. of New
York City on a matching gift
basis—if we could raise this a-mount
from interested individuals
they would contribute a matching
sum.
According to Mr. Ferguson, one-third
of the year's contributions
income was received during the
month of April.
"It has been gratifying to see
the response of the friends of
Bethel and how they rallied to help
the school in its need," said Mr.
Ferguson. "It was evidence of
many people entering in to help
by giving small gifts rather than
only a few giving large contribu-tions."
Six Profs
Take Leaves
Members of the college and sem-inary
faculty met May 12 for a
dinner honoring the professors
who will be absent from the cam-pus
for sabbatical leaves or addi-tional
educational work next year.
Among those recognized were:
Dean Clifford Anderson, taking a
year's leave for graduate work; V.
Elving Anderson who will be in
Washington, D.C. doing special re-search
in the field of genetics;
Roy Dalton, spending the year at
the University of Toronto teach-ing
Aid doing additional research
on his doctoral thesis; Virgil Olson,
studying at the University of Up-sala
in Sweden; Reuben Omark,
traveling to the Philippines; and
Walfred Peterson, instructing at
Washington State university in
Pullman, Washington during the
first semester and then going to
Washington, D.C. to do research
work on church and state rela-tions.
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Editor L. Bradshaw
Selects New Staff
counts for at least a part of this
increase. Edna Schultz, assistant
registrar, explained.
Most of the registration is ex-pected
to be completed by June 1,
Miss Schultz said.
Fulbright Scholarship Program Related
About nine hundred Fulbright
scholarships for graduate study or
pre-doctoral research in 30 differ-ent
countries will be available for
the 1961-62 academic year.
In addition to the Fulbright a-wards,
scholarships for study in
Latin America under the Inter-
American Cultural convention are
also offered for 1961-62.
Applications for both the Ful-bright
and IACC Awards will be
available on May 20, the Institute
of International Education announ-ced
today. HE administers both
of these student programs for the
U.S. Department of State.
The Fulbright scholarships cover
travel, tuition, books and mainten-ance
for one academic year. Coun-tries
participating in the program
include Australia, Austria, Bel-gium
and Luxemburg, Brazil, Chile,
Republic of China, Colombia, Den-mark,
Ecuador, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Iceland, India,
Iran, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan,
Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sweden,
Turkey, Thailand, the United
Kingdom, and the United Arab
Republic. Awards for study in Ire-land
are also available under an
arrangement similar to that of
the Fulbright program.
The IACC program makes one
or more awards available for grad-uate
study in the following Latin
American countries : Bolivia, Bra-zil,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Hon-duras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
IACC scholarships cover transpor-tation,
tuition and partial to full
maintenance.
General digibility requirements
for both categories of awards are:
1) U.S. citizenship at time of ap-plication,
2) A bachelor's degree
or its equivalent, 3) knowledge of
the language of the host country
sufficient to carry out the pro-posed
study project and to com-municate
with the people of the
country, and 4) good health. A
good academic record and demon-strated
capacity for independent
study are also necessary. Prefer-ence
is given to applicants under
35 years of age who have not pre-viously
lived or studied abroad.
Applications for Fulbright and
IACC scholarships for 1961-62 will
be accepted until November 1,
1960. Requests for applications
must be postmarked before Octo-ber
15. Interested students should
consult Clifford Anderson, dean
of students for further informa-tion.
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Editor Lois Bradshaw
Assistant Editor Sharon Dickau
Business Manager Richard Kreider
News Editor Marie Hokuf
Feature Editor Sharon Bergstrom
Copy Editor Lois Brown
Sports Editor Don Delich
Circulation Manager Karen Mollet
Advisor Roy C. Dalton, Ph.D.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
I ALW6Y5 GIVE THAT KIP TOP PRICE FOR I-I15 _BOOKS — 1 DON'T THINK HE EVER OPENS ThEM."
Editorial
Students Act in Sit-ins;
What Role Shall We Take?
"Twenty-nine Negro and six white students were arrested dur-ing
a sit-in at a dime store in Tallahassee." "Thirty-five students
who were arrested pleaded innocent to disturbing the peace." This
is only on example of what has been happening throughout the
United States, particularly in the South.
The movement was begun by four students in Greensboro,
N. C. on Feb. 1 and has since "snowballed" to the extent that one
can't pick up a daily newspaper without seeing something about
"sit-ins" or students being arrested because of them.
This movement which reflects the serious thinking of the.
American college student is now supported by students and others
all over the United States and by both white and colored South-erners.
However, the reaction in the South is somewhat mixed—
some feel that Northerners, such as the University of Minnesota
motorcade which went to Nashville to help the Negro students, are
meddling and should be at home doing something about their own
racial problems, such as restricted housing.
So many of us understand so little about the problem or
what is going on in the South, particularly. On April 22 and 23
some 1,500 student leaders attended a National Conference of the
"Sit-in" Movement which was held in Washington, D.C.
The conference, sponsored by the United States National Stu-dent
association, was designed to bring student body leaders to-gether
to discuss the recent "sit-in" activities in the South, and
present a coherent picture of the nature and goals of the move-ment
and discuss the students' responsibility with regard to the
movement.
USNSA is a non-partisan confederation of student govern-ments
at approximately 375 American colleges and universities
with an enrollment exceeding 1,200,000 students. Founded in 1947,
it is the largest national union of students in the world.
To study the problem of "sit-ins" let us go back in history—
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many slaves were
brought to this country. Among these slaves there was little in
common, except for their skin color—they came from various parts
of Africa and for instance, they spoke many different languages.
Because of these factors there was a lack of group solidarity.
When they got their freedom following the Civil war,
they were not ready for it. Their actions during Reconstruction
speak for themselves. Gradually restrictions such as poll tax, the
grandfather clause and other discriminatory actions were forced
upon the Negro in the South and by the 1890's the restrictions
held the Negro in "his place."
By 1910 there was a beginning of upsurge in Negro protest-ing.
One example of this is the use of Negro publications to stir
up action among the Negroes in the South.
After the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against segregation,
the Negroes have tried to gain their civil rights in the South. Thus,
one faction of this is the "sit-in" movement. The Rev. Martin Lu-ther
King (who will be a convocation speaker at Bethel next year),
a spokesman for the Southern Negro, says that through non-vio-lent
action, the Negro doesn't aim to be victorious, but only to
achieve equality. They do these acts non-violently with religious
feelings of love and compassion behind them.
This is the situation in a rather large "nutshell." Here in the
Twin Cities, Students for Integration and groups from the NAACP
conduct organized picketing of the F. W. Woolworth, W. T. Grant
and Kresge stores in both cities. First of all these picketers tell the
management of their intention and then walk with signs concern-ing
their cause. (The picketers have found that the manager of
each store is told by the main office to adhere to the local cus-toms
concerning integration at their lunch counter.) It is their
idea that they will create an economic boycott which will cause
the Southern stores to be pressured into integrating their lunch
counters.
Thus far the student senate has participated in this move-ment
by sending telegrams of sympathy to the students at Fisk
university in Nashville and a telegram to the Mayor of Nashville
asking for justice for the jailed students.
Being aware of the problem, what shall be our continued role
in the movement? Shall we join the picketers, shall we not patron-ize
the picketed stores, shall we send more telegrams of sympathy,
or shall we send money to NSA which will be distributed in the
form of scholarships to the Southern students who have been asked
to leave their schools because of participation in such a movement?
Or will we continue in a somewhat silent manner ?
We have a role to play; but student leaders can't act without
the opinion of the student body. L E B
Alumnus Examines Validity
Of Doubt for Christian
by "The Gadfly"
(Bethel alumnus)
Doubt is a subject about which the average Chris-tian
hears a great deal. In general, of course, the
line he hears is similar to that expressed in the
glib words of the gospel chorus, "Leave it There:"
If you trust and never doubt,
He will surely bring you out .. .
But all religious people have felt this reaction to
doubt. Tennyson's lines are probably the most
familiar to us:
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Which of these irreconcilable positions is the Chris-tian
to take ? Without attempting a synthesis, it
might be worth making a few general comments
which will aid in making a decision.
In the first place doubt is an exercise of
the individual will, in that the individual is not
satisfied with the pious exhortations to trust so
often given by sanctimonious Christians. Trusting
is not as simple a matter as some of these well-meaning
but utterly naive persons would believe.
The Gospel indicates that "whosoever will may
come." Only through an exercise, not an acquie-scence,
of the will, can faith be found. And for some
the path to believing is not easy. Doubt, for these
individuals, is at least an exercise of free will which
dares to think beyond the platitudes and cliches
and panaceas offered by the quick "don't doubt."
The result, often enough, is a believer who not only
knows what he believes but why.
Secondly, doubt is a corrective to too
easy a faith for those who have already decided
for Christianity. It helps one avoid the pitfalls of
an enthusiastic assurance or an optimistic realism
so often seen in the lives of Christians, both of
which are dangerous in that the optimism is a shal-low
one and so is subject to successful attack by
experienced non-believers. Certainly, many more
Christians have "lost their faith" because of hold-ing
to too naive a faith (promptly exposed by the
logic of the non-Christian) than because of doubt.
Letters to the Editor
Are Chances At Carnival Gambling?
School is Inconsiderate as a Host
Dear Editor: The purpose of the annual) car- that the council chairman for next
In thinking over the social nival is to raise money for the year might consider this sugges-events
for the school year, I'm won- different organizations, beside pro- tion.
dering if we could substitute an- viding an evening's entertainment. Sincerely,
other social in place of the carni- However, the net gain financially Robert Lenz
val. It seems to me that events is usually small, and there are
such as the cake walk, and turtle times when the organization just
race are just other forms of gamb- breaks even, or loses money on the
ling whereby a person gives his event.
money in chance of winning some- In light of Dr. Lundquist's word
thing in return. to us concerning separation, I hope
Finally, doubt can be the means by which
the young Christian separates that which is valid
in Christianity from that which is not valid. Cer-tainly,
all the doctrines held by a specific denomi-national
group are not universally significant. The
true universality of Christianity is seen best when
the factors common to many groups are segregated
and examined.
True, this may cause some to re-evaluate the
niche into which chance of birth put them. Is this
bad? Hardly: we would expect a person of a differ-ent
religious heritage to examine our beliefs care-fully,
so as to increase the possibility of "conver-sion."
Similarly, we should extend the same op-portunity
to our younger Christians. If what we be-lieve
is consistent, valid, and uniquely valuable, the
only loss will be those who by nature or tempera-ment
did not fit anyhow. If what we believe is not
valid, etc., the only honest—and, indeed, Christian—
thing to do would be to admit it and allow the puri-fying
power of doubt to determine the choice they
make.
To dispel the ready responses to this
("But you're making all of Christianity relative,
subject to the individual's personal whims . . ." or
"We'll lose all our young people!"), let me add that
what doubt will do in the cases cited as objections
will be to strengthen the lives of those who choose
to stay with a particular form of belief. Even
though quantity is the byword today in religious
discussions, it is not too late for quality to be again
pre-eminent. And doubt, when sincerely used as a
tool by the searching believer, rather than as the
excuse for any rebellious behavior by the incorrigible
iconoclast, will, in these cases, be the "leavening"
which will produce mature believers who not only
know what they believe, but who know as well why
they believe. Or, in other words, "doubt" is what we
today call a quality expressed somewhat differently
many years ago:
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.
To the Editor:
I am personally thankful, and I
trust that many others would
share this gratitude, for the con-tinuous
appearance of distinguish-ed
speakers and lecturers who, this
year, have been presented on our
campus. Yet, I feel that on three
occasions, Bethel College has prov-ed
to be an inconsiderate and un-mannerly
host.
Visual aid difficulties and ill-preparedness,
almost to embarrass-ment,
have been the prelude to Dr.
Albright, Dr. Hingson, and Dr.
Kulp. I realize that technical trou-bles
can and do unexpectedly a-rise,
and further, that our pseudo-auditorium
facilities are often awk-ward.
Certainly the benefit and
inspiration from the messages of
the above men have not been im-paired
by these difficulties.
However, I cannot help but feel,
that while these outstanding men
were preparing to visit our cam-pus,
we also should have been tak-ing
greater and more extensive
precautions to be a gracious and
proper host, at least in the lecture
hall, to these noted guests of our
school. Although this show of ill-preparation
may be somewhat un-derstandable,
it need not become
necessary, and I hope that we will
not continue to inconvenience our
guests in this manner.
Steve Peterson
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Spring Fever, and oh, to be young again, to the times when a
young man's fancy turn to thoughts other than textbooks. Dictionaries?
Policies, Action on Agenda
Of USNSA Annual Convention
"All education students
who are planning on student
teaching next year must check
to make sure that they have
completed the application file
for their fourth year," said
Royal Bloom, associate profes-sor
of psychology. In addition
prospective practice teachers
should take the Strong Interest
Blank and the Minnesota Teach-er
Attitude inventory if they
have not all ready done so.
These tests may be picked up in
Mr. B400m's office.
ALL IS FORGIVEN!
Library
Day of Grace
Tomorrow, May 20
Return delinquent
books without fines
Deposit books
in box near
coffee shop
bulletin board
or bring to the library
ALSO
Be sure to check in all
materials by May 25
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The Regimental Band of the
Coldstream Guards from Queen
Elizabeth's household regiment at
Buckingham palace and the Pipes
and Drums of the Queen's own
Cameron highlanders will stage
a spectacle of marching ceremon-ies,
skirling bagpipes and highland
dancing on October 31, as the at-traction
of the 1960-1961 Univer-sity
Artists Course—Celebrity Ser-ies.
The announcement of the ser-ies
was made by James S. Lom-bard,
director of the department
of concerts and lectures at the
University of Minnesota.
The patrons of the Celebrity
series will be allowed to choose
either a four or five concert series
from a group of attractions. All
patrons will receive tickets to the
Coldstream Guards and Cameron
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Those who elect a five concert
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five events, while those who elect
a four concert series may select
any three of the four concerts list-ed
in addition to the Coldstream
Guards and Cameron Highlanders.
Season tickets for the Celebrity
series are now on sale at the Uni-versity
Artists Course ticket office,
105 Northrop auditorium at the
University of Minnesota. Tickets
for the four concert series are
priced at $3.75, $5, $7.50, $8.75,
$10, and $11.25.
Bethel catalogs for
1960-61 are now available for
distribution and all interested
students should pick up their
catalogs before leaving school
in June. The catalogs are avail-able
in the coflege office.
SS 109 forms for draft
deferment should be secured
by men students from the col-lege
office before the end of
the school year.
The college office sends these
forms to the draft board only
if requested to do so.
Two European musical organi-zations
will make their initial Up-per
Midwest appearances on the
1960 - 1961 University Artists
Course — Masterpiece Series. The
Royal Danish ballet, and the
Branko Krsmanovich chorus of
Yugoslavia comprised of eighty
mixed voices, will be the two open-
Conrad Woodall, Bruce Leafblad
and Lois Bradshaw will attend the
13th annual USNSA Congress at
the University of Minnesota Aug.
17 - Sept. 1.
ing attractions on next season's
edition of the forty-two-year-old
series.
The Masterpiece series has been
announced by James S. Lombard,
director of the department of con-certs
and lectures at the University
of Minnesota. Other attractions on
the coming year's series are the
Israel Philharmonic orchestra,
pianist Glenn Gould, violinist Isaac
Stern, soprano Mary Costa and
Metropolitan opera tenor, Jussi
Bjoerling.
Applications for season tickets
are being accepted now at the Uni-versity
Artists Course ticket of-fice,
105 Northrop Memorial audi-torium
at the University of Min-nesota.
Season tickets for the en-tire
series of seven concerts are
priced at $17:50, $15, $12.50, $10,
$7.50 and $5.
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The USNSA will be attended by
approximately 1,200 American stu-dent
leaders, educators, and for-eign
guests. Nationally known edu-cators
and personalities will ad-dress
the Congress on pertinent
current issues.
Stars Ravenhill
Speaking at an all-seminary
prayer breakfast on Wednesday,
May 28, will be the Rev. Mr. Leo-nard
Ravenhill.
Mr. Ravenhill is an English ev-angelist
and author.
The breakfast will begin at 6:45
a.m. in the dining hall. "College
pre-seminary students are invited,"
said Ray Hornsby, junior class
president.
Bob Ricker and Bud Malmsten
are in charge of the breakfast
which is the second sponsored by
the seminary junior class.
Tickets which are priced at 60
cents (30 cents for those on the
meal plan) may be obtained from
Bob Ricker.
V. Winquist
Heads YDFL
The Bethel YDFL recently
elected the following officers:
Vic Winquist, chairman, Lois
Bradshaw, vice-chairman, An-nette
Larson, secretary, and
Gordon Bear, treasurer. One
more meeting is planned before
the Young Democrats finish up
the year.
Groups View
Council Roles
At Retreat
The student senate leadership re-treat
attended by the Senate offi-cers,
council members, and class
officers was held Saturday, May 7.
After small group discussions in
the morning, Bruce Leafblad, sen-ate
president elect, outlined the
following points and suggested
their discussion in the light of the
role of each council in Bethel stu-dent
government:
1. What is the role of a council
in view of the program of the
entire school ?
2. What is the role of a council
as a vehicle for student ideas ?
3. What emphasis should be plac-ed
upon the integration of the
various councils ?
4. Are the apparent objectives of
the present councils worth-while
?
At the closing session President
Lundquist presented a challenge of
unity and fellowship among all
individuals on campus. His state-ment,
"One is your Master, and
all ye are brethren" summarized
the horizontal perspective of ad-ministration,
faculty, and students
in the area of government at
Bethel.
Gov.'s Comm.
Sympathizes
With South
Earl R. Larson, chairman of the
Governor's Human Rights commis-sion,
last week sent the following
letter to district managers of
Grant, Woolworth and Kresge
stores in Minnesota:
"The Governor's Human Rights
Commission . . . is deeply concern-ed
with problems of discrimination
which affect persons of racial, re-ligious
or national origin groups.
"We have noted with interest
and sympathy the attempts of Ne-groes
in the South to attain equal-ity
of service and opportunity now
accorded other citizens.
"The Commission . . . discussed
the subject of lunch counter ser-vice
and uniform operational policy
with which your company is pre-sently
involved.
"We note that in Minnesota
there has been a consistent ad-herence
to a democratic policy of
service in line with the Minnesota
Equal Rights Statute which pro-hibits
the exclusion of any person
because of race, color or religion,
or national origin.
"For this we wish to commend
you.
"We feel saddened, however, to
learn this policy is not being fol-lowed
in your stores in some sec-tions
of the nation and that hu-miliation,
rejection, and instances
of discrimination have resulted.
"We believe this to be unfair,
inconsistent and certainly undemo-cratic.
"The members of the Commis-sion
strongly urge you to convey
to the proper persons in your or-ganization
the hope of our Com-mission
as well as that of many
other fair-minded citizens for the
State of Minnesota that practices
of discrimination, prejudice, and
segregation be ended in all of your
stores across the nation."
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"The Day Was Friday .. .
Bethel . . Against .. U of M"?
by Dan Anderson
The day was Friday, May 6, when the Bethel Royals stepped onto
windswept Delta field to play a doubleheader against the mighty Uni-versity
of Minnesota!
True, Delta's outfield snowfences were not to be rattled by such
names as John Erickson or Wayne Knapp of the varsity staff, but by
slightly smaller versions of them, the junior varsity, who were Bethel's
unkind hosts for the day. (Unkind, I say, is just because my idea of
a good host is not one who hammers out twenty- five runs in a single
afternoon while allowing the guest only two—how unkind, but then,
such is life at Delta field.)
Seriously though, the junior varsity squads lineup, by our stan-dards
anyway, reeks with power that was turned on in the first inning
of the first game and wasn't shut off until the last Bethel batter val-iantly
struck out in the nighcap. For Minnesota, the whole afternoon
consisted mostly of bombing out singles, doubles, triples, and home
runs, plus of course, delicately taking, "ball four," a phrase uttered
rather profusely by the umpire and almost always when the Royal
hurlers were working.
Bethel pitcher Mery Sheplee worked the whole first game and was
charged with the 13-1 drubbing. He obviously chaffed under his mis-treatment,
and retaliated nicely by first doubling off the deep center
field wall, then lashing a single his next time up. Al Littler drove in
the lone Bethel run in the opener when he crashed a long double to the
center field wall (wall ? ) in the very first inning, chasing in Al Penner,
who had singled. From then on, winner Dick Hellmer bore down and
pitched shut-out ball the rest of the way. The big "U" gun in this game
was catcher Bob Deyak who lashed three hits in three official times at
bat, among them being a tremendous 400 foot home run into center
field.
The second game saw John Holmberg bravely face the Min-nesotans
and get treated in much the same manner as Merv, coming out
finally on the pathetic end of a 12-1 score. John Redin pitched the final
inning for the Royals. Winner Mike Nevin pitched a masterpiece for
the junior varsity, allowing only one run on two hits. Bethel's Curt
Hallstrom played the role of spoiler when he broke Nevin's no-hitter in
the fourth inning with a long triple to right-center field, scoring Al
Littler, who was on base by an error. Bethel's other hit didn't show it-self
until the final inning, when pinch hitter Bob Smith lined a single
into right.
Don Evans was the big boy for the "U" this time, with three hits
in three official bats, but it was catcher Bob Deyak who again set the
park buzzing with his second homer of the day. In the fifth inning, Deyak
tore into a Holmberg curve ball and sent it even further than his first
round tripper, over the left-center field section of the ragged snow-fence.
(Rumor has it that this one landed on the Chicago-bound, after-noon
Burlington Zephyr, whose tracks run a good quarter mile away from
center field, and is now in Chicago, where it is slowly regaining its
spherical shape.)
But, as we slowly walked out of Delta field with its stark, slatted
snowfences, we eyed the whooping junior varsity and said out of the
corners of our mouths—in unison, like they do in the majors—"Wait'll
next year!"
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Bethel Team
Second in
Weightlifting
Recently a group of fellows from
Bethel took second place in a state
weightlifting contest sponsored by
the American Athletic union.
White Bear lifting club took first
place with nine points and the
Bethel men took second with seven
total points.
Steve Sparling was the key
man on the Bethel team as he
pressed a hefty 170 pounds to cap-ture
first place in the 148 weight
division. Charles Ferguson and
Ray Shepherd took second place
honors in their respective divi-sions,
while Les Larson and Bill
Weidner placed fourth in their
weight groups.
Each fellow that participated
paid an entree fee of two dollars
which was needed by the A. A. U.
to cover the expenses of the meet.
It is thought that such organzied
athletic endeavors in the future
could be sponsored by the school.
The men missed coming home with
a large trophy for the school by
the fact that Rick Johnson, who
would have been the only entree in
the 123 pound division was unable
to participate because of illness.
Bethel Golf Meet
On Tuesday, April 26, 1960, the
Bethel golf team was defeated by
Eau Claire with a score of 3 1/2 to
2 1/2 on the eighteen hole Como
Park golf course. Mattison was the
low man of the meet and of course
the Bethel team. He walked off
with a low 76 score, six over par
on the Como course. Other Bethel
team members rated in this fash-ion:
Hames, 77; Borms, 83; Mal-aise,
86; and Shold, 101. Rick John-son
who usually starts on the team
and has done well in the past was
out of this meet because of illness.
by Willie Winnit
In the past few weeks the Bethel
track team has been participating
in many track meets with neigh-boring
schools. They have shown
some strength in a few of the
events with many of the school
records falling, however, the team
in general has been weak due to
lack of depth.
On Saturday, April 30, the Royal
thinclads traveled to River Falls
to participate in a warm, windy
meet with the state college at
River Falls, Stout State, and Eau
Claire. The team captured second
place in the meet losing only to
the much stronger River Falls
team. Roger Purcell made the best
showing for the Bethel team tak-ing
first in the 180 yard low hur-dles,
third in the 120 yard high
hurdles, and fourth in the 100
yard dash.
St. Thomas was the host of a
triangular meet Tuesday, May 3,
with Hamline and the Royal cin-dermen.
A Bethel record was bro-ken
by the mile relay team of Phil
Anderson, Larry Bradshaw, Ron
Olson, and Al Carlson. With
smooth exchanges and speedy run-
In he first game of a double
header, Dick Robertson laced a
single into left that brought two
runs charging across the plate in
the sixth inning with what proved
to be the winning margin as Bethel
rolled to its first victory, a 6-4
triumph at River Falls college's
expense on Tuesday, May 3.
Bethel was first to break ice as
pitcher Mery Sheplee, who also
went the distance in pitching up
Last Track
Meet in Area
Last Tuesday afternoon at
Hamline's Norton field the last
track meet in the Twin City area
for the Royal cindermen was held
with Augsburg, Northwestern,
Hamline, and Bethel participating.
The Bethel team was able to keep
out of last place, but fell far be-hind
the stronger Augsburg and
Hamline teams. Northwestern was
the only team Bethel was able to
nudge out. It should be noted, how-ever,
that Hamline and Augsburg
both are much larger schools than
Bethel and this would definitely
make a difference. The best show-ing
of the afternoon for Coach
Thompson's Royals was the fine
two mile run by Pat Colon.
ning they clicked off the one mile
distance in 3:35.5.
Ron Olson was able to tie
the school record for the second
time this season winning the 220
yard dash with a time of 23.5. The
team was only able to accumulate
281/2 points, however, and finished
behind the other two teams with
total points. Larry Bradshaw, a
freshman spark on the team, was
able to tie the school record in
the 880 yard run by placing sec-ond
in the meet.
The final track meet in the Twin
City area for the Royal team will
be run today at the Hamline field.
Caught in action in a re-cent
tennis meet is Ed Tegenfeldt
pictured to the right. Ed and
other tennis team members will be
representing Bethel in the Badger-
Gopher Conference spring sports
meet at Sheboygan, Wis., on May
21.
his first win, raced around to score
on an error in the third. Bethel's
lead was increased to 3-1 in their
half of the fifth after River Falls
had knotted the score in the fourth.
In the home half of the fifth, how-ever,
River Falls went ahead as
they pushed across three runs on
two walks, two singles, and an
error. The Royal team answered
with three runs of their own in
the top of the sixth, then rolled on
to win. Tuffy Bryant ripped three
singlies in four trips to the plate
and Don McKelvy solved Falcon
pitching for one to round out the
Bethel hitting attack. Given the
two run bulge in the sixth, Sheplee
settled down to hurl a no-hit, no-run
ballgame the rest of the way.
Sheplee fanned four and issued
free passes to five batters in his
winning stint, while Tauber, who
pitched the whole game for a loss,
struck out eight and walked four.
Lose Second Game
In the second game of the twin-bill
the win-flushed Royals were
swamped under an eleven hit bar-rage,
and staggered out on the tiny
end of a 13-1 score. John Redin
started for Bethel and assumed
the loss, but had some help from
Jim Connors who relieved him in
the fifth.
Royal batting averages contin-ued
to starve as the team scraped
together only three hits, one of
which was a lusty Al Littler triple.
Littler also walked in the sixth and
eventually scored on an error, ac-counting
for Bethel s lone run.
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Three golf team members
pose for our camera above as
they perfect their styles for
future meets. Pictured left to
right are Bob Hames, Rick
Johnson, and Les Borms. The
Badger - Gopher Conference
meet will be held at Sheboy-gan,
Wis., on May 21.
Track Records Fall
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Lois Bradshaw, a college junior
from St. Paul, has been named
CLARION editor for the school
year 1960-61.
Miss Bradshaw has previously
worked on the paper as news editor,
copy editor, and reporter. She
has also had experience working
on her high school paper.
At present, Miss Bradshaw, an
English major, is recording secre-tary
of the student senate.
She succeeds this year's co-edi-tors,
Alice Huffman and Conrad
Woodall.
Miss Bradshaw has appointed
Office Plans
Award Convo
For May 20
Awards will be presented to stu-dents
who have contributed signifi-cantly
to campus life in areas of
co-curricular activities in a special
chapel on Friday, May 20. Presi-dent
Carl Lundquist will bestow
the awards.
Awards will be given in the fol-lowing
areas: athletics, debate, mu-sical
groups, Christian service, ra-dio,
Clarion, Spire, and student
senate.
Students were selected to receive
the awards on the basis of their
service to the campus and their
participation in the specific acti-vity.
The purpose of the awards
chapel is to honor those who have
participated and encourage others
to participate in a co-curricular
activities.
Within each activity there are
variations in awards, including sil-ver
pins, gold pins, paper weights,
letter holders, and book ends for
all non-athletic activities. Athletic
awards include numerals, letters,
sweaters, and blankets.
According to Eugene Sprinkle,
assistant dean of students, those
who will receive awards will be
notified through the post office.
Richard Krieder, freshman, sports
editor, as business manager. Shar-on
Dickau, a freshman reporter,
has been named assistant editor.
Other staff members include
Marie Hokuf, news editor, Sharon
Bergstrom, feature editor, Lois
Brown, copy editor, and Don
Delich, sports editor. Karen Mollet
will be circulation manager.
Positions that are still open on
the staff are layout editor, and as-sistants
in all other departments.
Anyone who is interested should
contact the editor through Box 350.
Tea Honors Grads
The Bethel Women's Associa-tion
will sponsor a commence-ment
tea on Sunday, May 22.
The tea honoring the women
members of the graduating
class will be held in the Bodien
residence lounge from 2:30 to
4:30 in the afternoon.
"There will be no formal pro-gram
but there will be a musi-cal
background," said Elaine
Johnson, BWA president.
According to Miss Johnson,
all women students, faculty and
wives of students and faculty
are invited to attend the tea.
C. Lundquist,
G. Johnson
Get Th.D.'s
Carl Lundquist, president, and
Gordon Johnson, associate profes-sor
of homiletics in the seminary,
will be conferred their Th.D. de-grees
on May 23. They recently
completed work at Northern Bap-tist
Theological seminary in Chi-cago.
Dr. Lundquist did his disserta-tion
on a study of the teaching of
preaching in Baptist theological
seminaries. In his study he visited
and studied in 33 Baptist semin-aries
in the United States.
Mr. Johnson completed his work
in the field of practical theology.
The staff works ( ?) hard. Karen Mollet, circulation manager,
listens attentively as Dick Kreider, business manager and Lois Brad-shaw,
editor, discuss membership rates for ACP. Sharon Dickau, assist-ant
editor, contacts Marie Hokuf and Don Delich who are absent from
picture.
Council Heads, Prexies
Fill Senate Membership
All student senate positions for next year are filled as a result
of the May 6 class election, the recent senate appointments of coun-cil
chairmen and the seminary election.
Council chairmen for the school year 1960-61 were voted on
and appointed at the May 3 student senate meeting.
Conrad Lundberg, a junior sociology major, was appointed chair-man
of the religious council.
Heading the social council will be David Stapp, a sophomore from
South St. Paul.
Milton Quiggle was re-appointed to chairman the cultural council.
Mr. Quiggle is a middler in the seminary.
Truman Turnquist, present junior class president, will head-up the
athletic council.
The council chairmen are looking for people to serve with them.
Students interested in working on a council should contact the respec-tive
chairmans.
The following were selected as class chairmen: Phil Peterson, sen-ior
class chairman elect, Larry Peterson, junior class chairman elect,
and James Spickelmier, sophomore class chairman elect.
Other class officyrs are as fnllov-s:
The freshmen elected Darrel Johnson, vice-president, Nancy Gustaf-son,
secretary, and Lee Bajuniemi, treasurer.
Th sophomore class elected Tuffy Bryant, vice-president, Ellen Polk,
sceretary, and Mable Moen, treasurer.
The junior class officers are Ray Duncan, vice-president, June Mc-
Gillivray, secretary, and Ann Friberg, treasurer.
Class presidents serve as voting members of the student senate.
Walter Shearer, seminary middleman, was recently elected semin-ary
council president. As president he has a vote in student senate as
the seminary representative.
Other officers are George Dvirnak, vice-president, and Robert
Kobele, secretary-treasurer.
College Office Notes
Registration Increase
Registration has increased 47
per cent over last year, the col-lege
office announced.
Two hundred-forty applications
had been received by May 1 this
year as compared with 164 by the
same time last year. Of these 131
freshmen and 10 transfer students After that time it may be neces-have
been accepted. sary to limit enrollment as Bethel
A trend for high school students is only able to admit about 230
to apply earlier in the year ac- freshmen, she added.
'Bethel Closes
Year in Black'
Says Ferguson
Recently, it was announced by
Charles Ferguson, director of em-ployment,
that the deficit had been
met and the college and seminary
ended the fiscal year in the black.
At the beginning of April there
appeared to be a $55,000 deficit—
and by mid-April it was lowered
to $35,000.
Through 2,642 contributions
ranging from $1. to $5,000., the
college received $96,153 in April.
A $10,000 gift was given by the
C.I.T. Foundation, Inc. of New
York City on a matching gift
basis—if we could raise this a-mount
from interested individuals
they would contribute a matching
sum.
According to Mr. Ferguson, one-third
of the year's contributions
income was received during the
month of April.
"It has been gratifying to see
the response of the friends of
Bethel and how they rallied to help
the school in its need," said Mr.
Ferguson. "It was evidence of
many people entering in to help
by giving small gifts rather than
only a few giving large contribu-tions."
Six Profs
Take Leaves
Members of the college and sem-inary
faculty met May 12 for a
dinner honoring the professors
who will be absent from the cam-pus
for sabbatical leaves or addi-tional
educational work next year.
Among those recognized were:
Dean Clifford Anderson, taking a
year's leave for graduate work; V.
Elving Anderson who will be in
Washington, D.C. doing special re-search
in the field of genetics;
Roy Dalton, spending the year at
the University of Toronto teach-ing
Aid doing additional research
on his doctoral thesis; Virgil Olson,
studying at the University of Up-sala
in Sweden; Reuben Omark,
traveling to the Philippines; and
Walfred Peterson, instructing at
Washington State university in
Pullman, Washington during the
first semester and then going to
Washington, D.C. to do research
work on church and state rela-tions.
CLARION Vol. XX XVI St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, May 19, 1960 No. 14
Editor L. Bradshaw
Selects New Staff
counts for at least a part of this
increase. Edna Schultz, assistant
registrar, explained.
Most of the registration is ex-pected
to be completed by June 1,
Miss Schultz said.
Fulbright Scholarship Program Related
About nine hundred Fulbright
scholarships for graduate study or
pre-doctoral research in 30 differ-ent
countries will be available for
the 1961-62 academic year.
In addition to the Fulbright a-wards,
scholarships for study in
Latin America under the Inter-
American Cultural convention are
also offered for 1961-62.
Applications for both the Ful-bright
and IACC Awards will be
available on May 20, the Institute
of International Education announ-ced
today. HE administers both
of these student programs for the
U.S. Department of State.
The Fulbright scholarships cover
travel, tuition, books and mainten-ance
for one academic year. Coun-tries
participating in the program
include Australia, Austria, Bel-gium
and Luxemburg, Brazil, Chile,
Republic of China, Colombia, Den-mark,
Ecuador, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Iceland, India,
Iran, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan,
Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sweden,
Turkey, Thailand, the United
Kingdom, and the United Arab
Republic. Awards for study in Ire-land
are also available under an
arrangement similar to that of
the Fulbright program.
The IACC program makes one
or more awards available for grad-uate
study in the following Latin
American countries : Bolivia, Bra-zil,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Hon-duras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
IACC scholarships cover transpor-tation,
tuition and partial to full
maintenance.
General digibility requirements
for both categories of awards are:
1) U.S. citizenship at time of ap-plication,
2) A bachelor's degree
or its equivalent, 3) knowledge of
the language of the host country
sufficient to carry out the pro-posed
study project and to com-municate
with the people of the
country, and 4) good health. A
good academic record and demon-strated
capacity for independent
study are also necessary. Prefer-ence
is given to applicants under
35 years of age who have not pre-viously
lived or studied abroad.
Applications for Fulbright and
IACC scholarships for 1961-62 will
be accepted until November 1,
1960. Requests for applications
must be postmarked before Octo-ber
15. Interested students should
consult Clifford Anderson, dean
of students for further informa-tion.
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Editor Lois Bradshaw
Assistant Editor Sharon Dickau
Business Manager Richard Kreider
News Editor Marie Hokuf
Feature Editor Sharon Bergstrom
Copy Editor Lois Brown
Sports Editor Don Delich
Circulation Manager Karen Mollet
Advisor Roy C. Dalton, Ph.D.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
I ALW6Y5 GIVE THAT KIP TOP PRICE FOR I-I15 _BOOKS — 1 DON'T THINK HE EVER OPENS ThEM."
Editorial
Students Act in Sit-ins;
What Role Shall We Take?
"Twenty-nine Negro and six white students were arrested dur-ing
a sit-in at a dime store in Tallahassee." "Thirty-five students
who were arrested pleaded innocent to disturbing the peace." This
is only on example of what has been happening throughout the
United States, particularly in the South.
The movement was begun by four students in Greensboro,
N. C. on Feb. 1 and has since "snowballed" to the extent that one
can't pick up a daily newspaper without seeing something about
"sit-ins" or students being arrested because of them.
This movement which reflects the serious thinking of the.
American college student is now supported by students and others
all over the United States and by both white and colored South-erners.
However, the reaction in the South is somewhat mixed—
some feel that Northerners, such as the University of Minnesota
motorcade which went to Nashville to help the Negro students, are
meddling and should be at home doing something about their own
racial problems, such as restricted housing.
So many of us understand so little about the problem or
what is going on in the South, particularly. On April 22 and 23
some 1,500 student leaders attended a National Conference of the
"Sit-in" Movement which was held in Washington, D.C.
The conference, sponsored by the United States National Stu-dent
association, was designed to bring student body leaders to-gether
to discuss the recent "sit-in" activities in the South, and
present a coherent picture of the nature and goals of the move-ment
and discuss the students' responsibility with regard to the
movement.
USNSA is a non-partisan confederation of student govern-ments
at approximately 375 American colleges and universities
with an enrollment exceeding 1,200,000 students. Founded in 1947,
it is the largest national union of students in the world.
To study the problem of "sit-ins" let us go back in history—
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many slaves were
brought to this country. Among these slaves there was little in
common, except for their skin color—they came from various parts
of Africa and for instance, they spoke many different languages.
Because of these factors there was a lack of group solidarity.
When they got their freedom following the Civil war,
they were not ready for it. Their actions during Reconstruction
speak for themselves. Gradually restrictions such as poll tax, the
grandfather clause and other discriminatory actions were forced
upon the Negro in the South and by the 1890's the restrictions
held the Negro in "his place."
By 1910 there was a beginning of upsurge in Negro protest-ing.
One example of this is the use of Negro publications to stir
up action among the Negroes in the South.
After the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against segregation,
the Negroes have tried to gain their civil rights in the South. Thus,
one faction of this is the "sit-in" movement. The Rev. Martin Lu-ther
King (who will be a convocation speaker at Bethel next year),
a spokesman for the Southern Negro, says that through non-vio-lent
action, the Negro doesn't aim to be victorious, but only to
achieve equality. They do these acts non-violently with religious
feelings of love and compassion behind them.
This is the situation in a rather large "nutshell." Here in the
Twin Cities, Students for Integration and groups from the NAACP
conduct organized picketing of the F. W. Woolworth, W. T. Grant
and Kresge stores in both cities. First of all these picketers tell the
management of their intention and then walk with signs concern-ing
their cause. (The picketers have found that the manager of
each store is told by the main office to adhere to the local cus-toms
concerning integration at their lunch counter.) It is their
idea that they will create an economic boycott which will cause
the Southern stores to be pressured into integrating their lunch
counters.
Thus far the student senate has participated in this move-ment
by sending telegrams of sympathy to the students at Fisk
university in Nashville and a telegram to the Mayor of Nashville
asking for justice for the jailed students.
Being aware of the problem, what shall be our continued role
in the movement? Shall we join the picketers, shall we not patron-ize
the picketed stores, shall we send more telegrams of sympathy,
or shall we send money to NSA which will be distributed in the
form of scholarships to the Southern students who have been asked
to leave their schools because of participation in such a movement?
Or will we continue in a somewhat silent manner ?
We have a role to play; but student leaders can't act without
the opinion of the student body. L E B
Alumnus Examines Validity
Of Doubt for Christian
by "The Gadfly"
(Bethel alumnus)
Doubt is a subject about which the average Chris-tian
hears a great deal. In general, of course, the
line he hears is similar to that expressed in the
glib words of the gospel chorus, "Leave it There:"
If you trust and never doubt,
He will surely bring you out .. .
But all religious people have felt this reaction to
doubt. Tennyson's lines are probably the most
familiar to us:
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Which of these irreconcilable positions is the Chris-tian
to take ? Without attempting a synthesis, it
might be worth making a few general comments
which will aid in making a decision.
In the first place doubt is an exercise of
the individual will, in that the individual is not
satisfied with the pious exhortations to trust so
often given by sanctimonious Christians. Trusting
is not as simple a matter as some of these well-meaning
but utterly naive persons would believe.
The Gospel indicates that "whosoever will may
come." Only through an exercise, not an acquie-scence,
of the will, can faith be found. And for some
the path to believing is not easy. Doubt, for these
individuals, is at least an exercise of free will which
dares to think beyond the platitudes and cliches
and panaceas offered by the quick "don't doubt."
The result, often enough, is a believer who not only
knows what he believes but why.
Secondly, doubt is a corrective to too
easy a faith for those who have already decided
for Christianity. It helps one avoid the pitfalls of
an enthusiastic assurance or an optimistic realism
so often seen in the lives of Christians, both of
which are dangerous in that the optimism is a shal-low
one and so is subject to successful attack by
experienced non-believers. Certainly, many more
Christians have "lost their faith" because of hold-ing
to too naive a faith (promptly exposed by the
logic of the non-Christian) than because of doubt.
Letters to the Editor
Are Chances At Carnival Gambling?
School is Inconsiderate as a Host
Dear Editor: The purpose of the annual) car- that the council chairman for next
In thinking over the social nival is to raise money for the year might consider this sugges-events
for the school year, I'm won- different organizations, beside pro- tion.
dering if we could substitute an- viding an evening's entertainment. Sincerely,
other social in place of the carni- However, the net gain financially Robert Lenz
val. It seems to me that events is usually small, and there are
such as the cake walk, and turtle times when the organization just
race are just other forms of gamb- breaks even, or loses money on the
ling whereby a person gives his event.
money in chance of winning some- In light of Dr. Lundquist's word
thing in return. to us concerning separation, I hope
Finally, doubt can be the means by which
the young Christian separates that which is valid
in Christianity from that which is not valid. Cer-tainly,
all the doctrines held by a specific denomi-national
group are not universally significant. The
true universality of Christianity is seen best when
the factors common to many groups are segregated
and examined.
True, this may cause some to re-evaluate the
niche into which chance of birth put them. Is this
bad? Hardly: we would expect a person of a differ-ent
religious heritage to examine our beliefs care-fully,
so as to increase the possibility of "conver-sion."
Similarly, we should extend the same op-portunity
to our younger Christians. If what we be-lieve
is consistent, valid, and uniquely valuable, the
only loss will be those who by nature or tempera-ment
did not fit anyhow. If what we believe is not
valid, etc., the only honest—and, indeed, Christian—
thing to do would be to admit it and allow the puri-fying
power of doubt to determine the choice they
make.
To dispel the ready responses to this
("But you're making all of Christianity relative,
subject to the individual's personal whims . . ." or
"We'll lose all our young people!"), let me add that
what doubt will do in the cases cited as objections
will be to strengthen the lives of those who choose
to stay with a particular form of belief. Even
though quantity is the byword today in religious
discussions, it is not too late for quality to be again
pre-eminent. And doubt, when sincerely used as a
tool by the searching believer, rather than as the
excuse for any rebellious behavior by the incorrigible
iconoclast, will, in these cases, be the "leavening"
which will produce mature believers who not only
know what they believe, but who know as well why
they believe. Or, in other words, "doubt" is what we
today call a quality expressed somewhat differently
many years ago:
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.
To the Editor:
I am personally thankful, and I
trust that many others would
share this gratitude, for the con-tinuous
appearance of distinguish-ed
speakers and lecturers who, this
year, have been presented on our
campus. Yet, I feel that on three
occasions, Bethel College has prov-ed
to be an inconsiderate and un-mannerly
host.
Visual aid difficulties and ill-preparedness,
almost to embarrass-ment,
have been the prelude to Dr.
Albright, Dr. Hingson, and Dr.
Kulp. I realize that technical trou-bles
can and do unexpectedly a-rise,
and further, that our pseudo-auditorium
facilities are often awk-ward.
Certainly the benefit and
inspiration from the messages of
the above men have not been im-paired
by these difficulties.
However, I cannot help but feel,
that while these outstanding men
were preparing to visit our cam-pus,
we also should have been tak-ing
greater and more extensive
precautions to be a gracious and
proper host, at least in the lecture
hall, to these noted guests of our
school. Although this show of ill-preparation
may be somewhat un-derstandable,
it need not become
necessary, and I hope that we will
not continue to inconvenience our
guests in this manner.
Steve Peterson
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Spring Fever, and oh, to be young again, to the times when a
young man's fancy turn to thoughts other than textbooks. Dictionaries?
Policies, Action on Agenda
Of USNSA Annual Convention
"All education students
who are planning on student
teaching next year must check
to make sure that they have
completed the application file
for their fourth year," said
Royal Bloom, associate profes-sor
of psychology. In addition
prospective practice teachers
should take the Strong Interest
Blank and the Minnesota Teach-er
Attitude inventory if they
have not all ready done so.
These tests may be picked up in
Mr. B400m's office.
ALL IS FORGIVEN!
Library
Day of Grace
Tomorrow, May 20
Return delinquent
books without fines
Deposit books
in box near
coffee shop
bulletin board
or bring to the library
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materials by May 25
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British Band Slated
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Masterpiece Series
The Regimental Band of the
Coldstream Guards from Queen
Elizabeth's household regiment at
Buckingham palace and the Pipes
and Drums of the Queen's own
Cameron highlanders will stage
a spectacle of marching ceremon-ies,
skirling bagpipes and highland
dancing on October 31, as the at-traction
of the 1960-1961 Univer-sity
Artists Course—Celebrity Ser-ies.
The announcement of the ser-ies
was made by James S. Lom-bard,
director of the department
of concerts and lectures at the
University of Minnesota.
The patrons of the Celebrity
series will be allowed to choose
either a four or five concert series
from a group of attractions. All
patrons will receive tickets to the
Coldstream Guards and Cameron
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Borealis, and guitarist Andres
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Those who elect a five concert
series will be issued tickets to all
five events, while those who elect
a four concert series may select
any three of the four concerts list-ed
in addition to the Coldstream
Guards and Cameron Highlanders.
Season tickets for the Celebrity
series are now on sale at the Uni-versity
Artists Course ticket office,
105 Northrop auditorium at the
University of Minnesota. Tickets
for the four concert series are
priced at $3.75, $5, $7.50, $8.75,
$10, and $11.25.
Bethel catalogs for
1960-61 are now available for
distribution and all interested
students should pick up their
catalogs before leaving school
in June. The catalogs are avail-able
in the coflege office.
SS 109 forms for draft
deferment should be secured
by men students from the col-lege
office before the end of
the school year.
The college office sends these
forms to the draft board only
if requested to do so.
Two European musical organi-zations
will make their initial Up-per
Midwest appearances on the
1960 - 1961 University Artists
Course — Masterpiece Series. The
Royal Danish ballet, and the
Branko Krsmanovich chorus of
Yugoslavia comprised of eighty
mixed voices, will be the two open-
Conrad Woodall, Bruce Leafblad
and Lois Bradshaw will attend the
13th annual USNSA Congress at
the University of Minnesota Aug.
17 - Sept. 1.
ing attractions on next season's
edition of the forty-two-year-old
series.
The Masterpiece series has been
announced by James S. Lombard,
director of the department of con-certs
and lectures at the University
of Minnesota. Other attractions on
the coming year's series are the
Israel Philharmonic orchestra,
pianist Glenn Gould, violinist Isaac
Stern, soprano Mary Costa and
Metropolitan opera tenor, Jussi
Bjoerling.
Applications for season tickets
are being accepted now at the Uni-versity
Artists Course ticket of-fice,
105 Northrop Memorial audi-torium
at the University of Min-nesota.
Season tickets for the en-tire
series of seven concerts are
priced at $17:50, $15, $12.50, $10,
$7.50 and $5.
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The USNSA will be attended by
approximately 1,200 American stu-dent
leaders, educators, and for-eign
guests. Nationally known edu-cators
and personalities will ad-dress
the Congress on pertinent
current issues.
Stars Ravenhill
Speaking at an all-seminary
prayer breakfast on Wednesday,
May 28, will be the Rev. Mr. Leo-nard
Ravenhill.
Mr. Ravenhill is an English ev-angelist
and author.
The breakfast will begin at 6:45
a.m. in the dining hall. "College
pre-seminary students are invited,"
said Ray Hornsby, junior class
president.
Bob Ricker and Bud Malmsten
are in charge of the breakfast
which is the second sponsored by
the seminary junior class.
Tickets which are priced at 60
cents (30 cents for those on the
meal plan) may be obtained from
Bob Ricker.
V. Winquist
Heads YDFL
The Bethel YDFL recently
elected the following officers:
Vic Winquist, chairman, Lois
Bradshaw, vice-chairman, An-nette
Larson, secretary, and
Gordon Bear, treasurer. One
more meeting is planned before
the Young Democrats finish up
the year.
Groups View
Council Roles
At Retreat
The student senate leadership re-treat
attended by the Senate offi-cers,
council members, and class
officers was held Saturday, May 7.
After small group discussions in
the morning, Bruce Leafblad, sen-ate
president elect, outlined the
following points and suggested
their discussion in the light of the
role of each council in Bethel stu-dent
government:
1. What is the role of a council
in view of the program of the
entire school ?
2. What is the role of a council
as a vehicle for student ideas ?
3. What emphasis should be plac-ed
upon the integration of the
various councils ?
4. Are the apparent objectives of
the present councils worth-while
?
At the closing session President
Lundquist presented a challenge of
unity and fellowship among all
individuals on campus. His state-ment,
"One is your Master, and
all ye are brethren" summarized
the horizontal perspective of ad-ministration,
faculty, and students
in the area of government at
Bethel.
Gov.'s Comm.
Sympathizes
With South
Earl R. Larson, chairman of the
Governor's Human Rights commis-sion,
last week sent the following
letter to district managers of
Grant, Woolworth and Kresge
stores in Minnesota:
"The Governor's Human Rights
Commission . . . is deeply concern-ed
with problems of discrimination
which affect persons of racial, re-ligious
or national origin groups.
"We have noted with interest
and sympathy the attempts of Ne-groes
in the South to attain equal-ity
of service and opportunity now
accorded other citizens.
"The Commission . . . discussed
the subject of lunch counter ser-vice
and uniform operational policy
with which your company is pre-sently
involved.
"We note that in Minnesota
there has been a consistent ad-herence
to a democratic policy of
service in line with the Minnesota
Equal Rights Statute which pro-hibits
the exclusion of any person
because of race, color or religion,
or national origin.
"For this we wish to commend
you.
"We feel saddened, however, to
learn this policy is not being fol-lowed
in your stores in some sec-tions
of the nation and that hu-miliation,
rejection, and instances
of discrimination have resulted.
"We believe this to be unfair,
inconsistent and certainly undemo-cratic.
"The members of the Commis-sion
strongly urge you to convey
to the proper persons in your or-ganization
the hope of our Com-mission
as well as that of many
other fair-minded citizens for the
State of Minnesota that practices
of discrimination, prejudice, and
segregation be ended in all of your
stores across the nation."
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"The Day Was Friday .. .
Bethel . . Against .. U of M"?
by Dan Anderson
The day was Friday, May 6, when the Bethel Royals stepped onto
windswept Delta field to play a doubleheader against the mighty Uni-versity
of Minnesota!
True, Delta's outfield snowfences were not to be rattled by such
names as John Erickson or Wayne Knapp of the varsity staff, but by
slightly smaller versions of them, the junior varsity, who were Bethel's
unkind hosts for the day. (Unkind, I say, is just because my idea of
a good host is not one who hammers out twenty- five runs in a single
afternoon while allowing the guest only two—how unkind, but then,
such is life at Delta field.)
Seriously though, the junior varsity squads lineup, by our stan-dards
anyway, reeks with power that was turned on in the first inning
of the first game and wasn't shut off until the last Bethel batter val-iantly
struck out in the nighcap. For Minnesota, the whole afternoon
consisted mostly of bombing out singles, doubles, triples, and home
runs, plus of course, delicately taking, "ball four," a phrase uttered
rather profusely by the umpire and almost always when the Royal
hurlers were working.
Bethel pitcher Mery Sheplee worked the whole first game and was
charged with the 13-1 drubbing. He obviously chaffed under his mis-treatment,
and retaliated nicely by first doubling off the deep center
field wall, then lashing a single his next time up. Al Littler drove in
the lone Bethel run in the opener when he crashed a long double to the
center field wall (wall ? ) in the very first inning, chasing in Al Penner,
who had singled. From then on, winner Dick Hellmer bore down and
pitched shut-out ball the rest of the way. The big "U" gun in this game
was catcher Bob Deyak who lashed three hits in three official times at
bat, among them being a tremendous 400 foot home run into center
field.
The second game saw John Holmberg bravely face the Min-nesotans
and get treated in much the same manner as Merv, coming out
finally on the pathetic end of a 12-1 score. John Redin pitched the final
inning for the Royals. Winner Mike Nevin pitched a masterpiece for
the junior varsity, allowing only one run on two hits. Bethel's Curt
Hallstrom played the role of spoiler when he broke Nevin's no-hitter in
the fourth inning with a long triple to right-center field, scoring Al
Littler, who was on base by an error. Bethel's other hit didn't show it-self
until the final inning, when pinch hitter Bob Smith lined a single
into right.
Don Evans was the big boy for the "U" this time, with three hits
in three official bats, but it was catcher Bob Deyak who again set the
park buzzing with his second homer of the day. In the fifth inning, Deyak
tore into a Holmberg curve ball and sent it even further than his first
round tripper, over the left-center field section of the ragged snow-fence.
(Rumor has it that this one landed on the Chicago-bound, after-noon
Burlington Zephyr, whose tracks run a good quarter mile away from
center field, and is now in Chicago, where it is slowly regaining its
spherical shape.)
But, as we slowly walked out of Delta field with its stark, slatted
snowfences, we eyed the whooping junior varsity and said out of the
corners of our mouths—in unison, like they do in the majors—"Wait'll
next year!"
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Bethel Team
Second in
Weightlifting
Recently a group of fellows from
Bethel took second place in a state
weightlifting contest sponsored by
the American Athletic union.
White Bear lifting club took first
place with nine points and the
Bethel men took second with seven
total points.
Steve Sparling was the key
man on the Bethel team as he
pressed a hefty 170 pounds to cap-ture
first place in the 148 weight
division. Charles Ferguson and
Ray Shepherd took second place
honors in their respective divi-sions,
while Les Larson and Bill
Weidner placed fourth in their
weight groups.
Each fellow that participated
paid an entree fee of two dollars
which was needed by the A. A. U.
to cover the expenses of the meet.
It is thought that such organzied
athletic endeavors in the future
could be sponsored by the school.
The men missed coming home with
a large trophy for the school by
the fact that Rick Johnson, who
would have been the only entree in
the 123 pound division was unable
to participate because of illness.
Bethel Golf Meet
On Tuesday, April 26, 1960, the
Bethel golf team was defeated by
Eau Claire with a score of 3 1/2 to
2 1/2 on the eighteen hole Como
Park golf course. Mattison was the
low man of the meet and of course
the Bethel team. He walked off
with a low 76 score, six over par
on the Como course. Other Bethel
team members rated in this fash-ion:
Hames, 77; Borms, 83; Mal-aise,
86; and Shold, 101. Rick John-son
who usually starts on the team
and has done well in the past was
out of this meet because of illness.
by Willie Winnit
In the past few weeks the Bethel
track team has been participating
in many track meets with neigh-boring
schools. They have shown
some strength in a few of the
events with many of the school
records falling, however, the team
in general has been weak due to
lack of depth.
On Saturday, April 30, the Royal
thinclads traveled to River Falls
to participate in a warm, windy
meet with the state college at
River Falls, Stout State, and Eau
Claire. The team captured second
place in the meet losing only to
the much stronger River Falls
team. Roger Purcell made the best
showing for the Bethel team tak-ing
first in the 180 yard low hur-dles,
third in the 120 yard high
hurdles, and fourth in the 100
yard dash.
St. Thomas was the host of a
triangular meet Tuesday, May 3,
with Hamline and the Royal cin-dermen.
A Bethel record was bro-ken
by the mile relay team of Phil
Anderson, Larry Bradshaw, Ron
Olson, and Al Carlson. With
smooth exchanges and speedy run-
In he first game of a double
header, Dick Robertson laced a
single into left that brought two
runs charging across the plate in
the sixth inning with what proved
to be the winning margin as Bethel
rolled to its first victory, a 6-4
triumph at River Falls college's
expense on Tuesday, May 3.
Bethel was first to break ice as
pitcher Mery Sheplee, who also
went the distance in pitching up
Last Track
Meet in Area
Last Tuesday afternoon at
Hamline's Norton field the last
track meet in the Twin City area
for the Royal cindermen was held
with Augsburg, Northwestern,
Hamline, and Bethel participating.
The Bethel team was able to keep
out of last place, but fell far be-hind
the stronger Augsburg and
Hamline teams. Northwestern was
the only team Bethel was able to
nudge out. It should be noted, how-ever,
that Hamline and Augsburg
both are much larger schools than
Bethel and this would definitely
make a difference. The best show-ing
of the afternoon for Coach
Thompson's Royals was the fine
two mile run by Pat Colon.
ning they clicked off the one mile
distance in 3:35.5.
Ron Olson was able to tie
the school record for the second
time this season winning the 220
yard dash with a time of 23.5. The
team was only able to accumulate
281/2 points, however, and finished
behind the other two teams with
total points. Larry Bradshaw, a
freshman spark on the team, was
able to tie the school record in
the 880 yard run by placing sec-ond
in the meet.
The final track meet in the Twin
City area for the Royal team will
be run today at the Hamline field.
Caught in action in a re-cent
tennis meet is Ed Tegenfeldt
pictured to the right. Ed and
other tennis team members will be
representing Bethel in the Badger-
Gopher Conference spring sports
meet at Sheboygan, Wis., on May
21.
his first win, raced around to score
on an error in the third. Bethel's
lead was increased to 3-1 in their
half of the fifth after River Falls
had knotted the score in the fourth.
In the home half of the fifth, how-ever,
River Falls went ahead as
they pushed across three runs on
two walks, two singles, and an
error. The Royal team answered
with three runs of their own in
the top of the sixth, then rolled on
to win. Tuffy Bryant ripped three
singlies in four trips to the plate
and Don McKelvy solved Falcon
pitching for one to round out the
Bethel hitting attack. Given the
two run bulge in the sixth, Sheplee
settled down to hurl a no-hit, no-run
ballgame the rest of the way.
Sheplee fanned four and issued
free passes to five batters in his
winning stint, while Tauber, who
pitched the whole game for a loss,
struck out eight and walked four.
Lose Second Game
In the second game of the twin-bill
the win-flushed Royals were
swamped under an eleven hit bar-rage,
and staggered out on the tiny
end of a 13-1 score. John Redin
started for Bethel and assumed
the loss, but had some help from
Jim Connors who relieved him in
the fifth.
Royal batting averages contin-ued
to starve as the team scraped
together only three hits, one of
which was a lusty Al Littler triple.
Littler also walked in the sixth and
eventually scored on an error, ac-counting
for Bethel s lone run.
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Three golf team members
pose for our camera above as
they perfect their styles for
future meets. Pictured left to
right are Bob Hames, Rick
Johnson, and Les Borms. The
Badger - Gopher Conference
meet will be held at Sheboy-gan,
Wis., on May 21.
Track Records Fall
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